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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Preservation of Oligarchies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aristotle calls the pool from which oligarchies draw their officials?
(a) Power-groups.
(b) Political elite.
(c) Politically powerful.
(d) Inherited positions.

2. Legals structures, like constitutions, are starting points for what?
(a) Definition of citizenship.
(b) Laws that govern a state.
(c) Deciding who rules.
(d) Justice.

3. Aristotle believes that people should be trained for what?
(a) What their parents want them to do.
(b) What they think they want to do.
(c) What they are best suited to do.
(d) What their ideal place in society is.

4. Aristotle compares a constitution to what?
(a) The supporting column of a building.
(b) The hub of a spoked wheel.
(c) The capstone in an arch.
(d) The gears in a mill.

5. Aristotle thinks that the craftsman who tries to make laws will do what?
(a) Not care about his duties.
(b) Make bad laws.
(c) Ask to be released.
(d) Make good laws.

Short Answer Questions

1. A universal constitution means, according to Aristotle, that the constitution can do what?

2. This type of constitution is not limited by actual conditions and is not required to function in practice.

3. Aristotle says that the second greatest cause of crime are desires that reach beyond what?

4. What, according to Aristotle, is the top cause of crime?

5. Aristotle says that a government will have problems when more of its people are interested in profit than in what?

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